Elsevier Selects Clinical Architecture’s Symedical® for Enhanced Order Set Integration

Symedical's powerful terminology management tools support local implementation of InOrder by Elsevier

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Philadelphia, PA, September 9, 2014

Elsevier,a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical informationproducts and services, has selected Symedical®, Clinical Architecture's comprehensive terminologymanagement system, as a system to support the mapping of orderable itemcatalogs for implementations of InOrder.

InOrder by Elsevier isan intuitive, cloud-based order set solution that enables physicians, clinicalquality improvement leaders and other clinicians to author, review and manageorder sets in a collaborative environment. An important step in realizing thevalue of any order set is the quality of its integration into the electronicworkflow of physicians. Symedical's powerful terminology management andinteroperability tools enable Elsevier and our clients to efficiently andaccurately implement InOrder by streamlining the process of mapping to thelocal medical vocabulary used at each organization.

InOrder combines a highly efficient, easy-to-use contentmanagement, authoring and workflow solution for hospitals' content developmentand technology teams, along with hundreds of evidence-based, highly intuitiveorder sets that can be used 'out of the box' or customized as needed. With Symedical,InOrder will be able to streamline the mapping to local hospital vocabulariesand speed implementation of the order sets.

"InOrder by Elsevier enables the rapid translation of newclinical recommendations and quality metrics into actionable orders, andClinical Architecture's Symedical helps streamline the implementation of ourclients," said Dr. Jonathan Teich, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, ElsevierClinical Solutions. "This allows us to collapse the lag time between knowledgediscovery and point of care use."

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AboutClinical ArchitectureClinicalArchitecture is the leading innovator in healthcare terminology managementtechnology. While healthcare market forces and regulatory requirements haveelevated the importance of managing information as coded data, or terminology;traditional tools and methods have not evolved to meet the challenge. ClinicalArchitecture is moving healthcare forward by providing innovative softwaresolutions for managing the complexities of healthcare terminologies.Informative discussions on a variety of health information technology topicsare available at the company's Healthcare IT Blog. For more information, pleasevisit ClinicalArchitecture.com. Symedical is a registered trademark ofClinical Architecture, LLC.

About ElsevierElsevier is a global information analytics business that helps institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science and improve performance for the benefit of humanity. Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support and professional education, including ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell, more than 38,000 e-book titles and many iconic reference works, including Gray's Anatomy. Elsevier is part of RELX Group, a global provider of information and analytics for professionals and business customers across industries. www.elsevier.com